International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012
Santa Monica, CA, Oct. 22-26, 2012
First Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.
Multimodal technologies are fundamentally changing the ways people interact with each other and with computers. Multimodal systems – recognizing language and gesture exchanged among people or as input to interfaces in physical environments or mobile devices – facilitate and enrich social interactions and allow people to naturally interact with computer systems with minimal training, for domains such as communications, education, entertainment, and robotics.
Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and computational linguistics, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years. Multimodal Grand Challenges are driven by ideas that are bold, innovative, and inclusive. They should inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible.
We are seeking organizers to propose and run Grand Challenge events. Both academic and corporate organizers are welcome. Read more on Call: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012 – Grand Challenges…
